RIA OREANDA
Economic News
February 17, 2005 Thursday
230 Thousand People Got Material Aid from “Fund of Mutual
Understanding and Reconciliation” Since August 2001
Moscow. The federal official body “Fund of mutual understanding and
reconciliation” and the Savings Bank of Russia have been making
payments of material aid to the citizens injured of national
socialism within the World War Two from means of the German Fund
“Memory, Responsibility and Future” since August 2001, and since
April 2002 – from means of the Austrian Fund “Reconciliation, Peace
and Cooperation”. For the period of payments, 230 thousand people got
the material aid for the total sum of approximately 250 million EUR.
Payments are made in more than 7 thousand branches of the Savings Bank
of Russia, located in 2400 settlements of the Russian Federation from
Kaliningrad up to Vladivostok.
The Savings Bank of Russia transfers sums of material aid to the
citizens living outside the Russian Federation on their accounts
opened in foreign banks. The greatest number of addressees is living
in Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, and Belarus. The sums of material aid
were transferred also to Kazakhstan, Kirghizia, Armenia, Germany, and
Israel. In total, material aid has been paid to more than 2 thousand
people in 25 foreign countries for the total sum of 2,2 million EUR.
In 2004, the fund and bank have begun payments of material aid to
assignees of addressees. In total, 15 thousand people have received
inheritance material aid for the total sum of 11 million EUR.